Building the semantic web encounters problems similar to building large bibliographic systems. The experience of librarianship in controlling large, heterogeneous collections of b...
Terrain can be approximated by a triangular mesh consisting millions of 3D points. Multiresolution triangular mesh (MTM) structures are designed to support applications that use t...
The old problem of managing the history of database information is now made more urgent and complex by fast spreading web information systems, such as Wikipedia. Our PRIMA system ...
Hyun Jin Moon, Carlo Curino, Alin Deutsch, Chien-Y...
An active XML (AXML) document contains tags representing calls to Web services. Therefore, retrieving its contents consists in materializing its data elements by invoking the embe...
This paper discusses the use of XML in conjunction with a variety of repositories and database systems, and outlines some of the requirements for an effective query language. Many...